Redirect Pages

[Matt]

My suggestions were for a complete disabling of the site. If you want to show an index page only, and not allow access to every other page, you can still do it with .htaccess, but its not as simple. You can of course delete all the files if you wanted then just slap an index page up there which would avoid the need for redirection and .htaccess rules then upload the site later when the company has done their thing...

Correct me if I'm thinking cap is on backwards, but what would happen if I go to public_html chmod not public_html itself but the all contents of public_html to 000 with the exception index.html and the redirect page linked to index.html, won't the redirect page be the only one available?

This would work, and there is no need for a redirect as long as your index page is the new one.